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== INSTALLATION OF THE IMAGE ==
Build the image with:
$ docker build --build-arg X11=no --tag=conky .
Although it will also build without "--build-arg X11=no" you'll need
some experience with both docker and conky to run the X11 version.
$ docker build --tag=conky .
or if you want the commandline version:
$ docker build --build-arg X11=no --tag=conkycmd .
== RUNNING OF THE CONTAINER ==
After building the easiest way to ran the commandline version is:
$ docker run --rm -ti conky
After building you can run the graphical version with:
$ docker run --rm -ti --net=host -e DISPLAY -v ~/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority conky
The commandline version is easier:
$ docker run --rm -ti conkycmd
or if you want to pass some options to conky (e.g. "--version"):
$ docker run --rm -ti conky conky --version
If you want to pass some options to conky you can just add them if you mention
'conky' twice. Once for the image and once for the command. For example:
$ docker run --rm -ti --net=host -e DISPLAY -v ~/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority conky conky --version
will show you the version of conky. Since you don't need X for this you could also do:
$ docker run --rm -ti conkycmd conky --version
or if you want to fiddle around a bit with the configuration you could do:
$ docker run --name=conky -ti conky bash
If you want to fiddle around a bit with the configuration first you could do:
$ docker run --rm -ti --net=host -e DISPLAY -v ~/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority conky bash
<change things is in the configuration>
$ conky -c configurationfile ; exit
or ... (use the docker docs to see what is possible)
See the docker docs to a lot of other ways to (ab)use this container
== WHY ==
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This can be done by following the instructions in
https://docs.docker.com/install/ to install docker CE. But just using the
packagemanager of your distro like you would do with other software will work.
- A lot of info will be about the current container instead of the whole system
- At the moment our docker image is still in development fase.